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This day in history: 10 July

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454 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 July.
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2019: The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)

Christian feast day: Amalberga of Maubeuge

Christian feast day: Canute IV of Denmark

Christian feast day: July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Martyrs of Damascus

Christian feast day: Rufina and Secunda

Christian feast day: Seven Brothers

Christian feast day: Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax

Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.

Nikola Tesla Day

Statehood Day (Wyoming)

Events

2019The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

2018Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

2017Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.

2016Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.

2012The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.

2011Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.

2011Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

2008Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.

2007Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

2007The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.

2006A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

2002The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

2000Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.

2000EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

1999In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world re

1998Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

1997In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1997Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

1995Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

1995The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.

1992In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

1991A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

1991Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

1991The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.

1985An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.

1985The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

1978President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

1976Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

1974An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.

1973The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

1967New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.

1966The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.

1962Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1951Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.

1948The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121

1947Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

1943World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.

1942World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

1941Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.

1940World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle

Born on this day

2024Moo Deng, Thai celebrity pygmy hippopotamus

2007Mason Thames, American actor

2002Reece Walsh, Australian rugby league player

2001Isabela Merced, American actress

1999April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer

1999San, South Korean singer and dancer

1998Angus Cloud, American actor (died 2023)

1994Chae Soo-bin, South Korean actress

1992Han Yu, Chinese pool player

1991Daishōmaru Shōgo, Japanese sumo wrestler

1990Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player

1990Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler

1990Trent Richardson, American football player

1988Antonio Brown, American football player

1988Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer

1988Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider

1985B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player

1985Funda Oru, Belgian politician

1985Mario Gómez, German footballer

1985Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer

1984Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer

1983Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby league player

1983Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player

1983Gabi, Spanish footballer

1983Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer

1983Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer

1983Kim Hee-chul, Korean entertainer and singer

1983Matthew Egan, Australian footballer

1983Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer

1982Alex Arrowsmith, American guitarist and producer

1982Jeffrey Walker, Australian actor and director

1982Juliya Chernetsky, Ukrainian-American television host

1982Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer

1981Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer

1980Adam Petty, American race car driver (died 2000)

1980Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1980Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter

1980James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer

1980Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

1979Gong Yoo, Korean actor

Died on this day

2026Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-born Australian radio and television host (born 1944)

2025David Gergen, American political consultant (born 1942)

2024Alex Janvier, Native American artist (born 1935)

2024Dave Loggins, American musician (born 1947)

2024Joe Engle, American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1932)

2022Maurice Boucher, Canadian outlaw biker (born 1953)

2020Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1935)

2020Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (born 1992)

2019Denise Nickerson, American former child actress (born 1957)

2018Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (born 1917)

2016Katharina Focke, German politician (born 1922)

2015Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (born 1926)

2015Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (born 1932)

2015Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (born 1944)

2014Gloria Schweigerdt, American baseball player (born 1934)

2014Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1918)

2014Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (born 1939)

2014Robert C. Broomfield, American lawyer and judge (born 1933)

2014Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (born 1912)

2013Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (born 1922)

2013Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (born 1958)

2013Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (born 1922)

2013Józef Gara, Polish poet and linguist (born 1929)

2013Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (born 1956)

2013Philip Caldwell, American businessman (born 1920)

2012Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch journalist and author (born 1938)

2012Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (born 1928)

2012Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (born 1925)

2012Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (born 1942)

2011Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and educator (born 1921)

Quote of the day

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

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